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Out Quotes by William Hazlitt
- A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
- First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions…
- A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing…
- We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse…
- I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me
- Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
- Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as…
- Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to…
- The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
- Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom,…
- One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature…
- Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of…
- I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
- A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
- Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon…
- We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on…
- In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what…
- The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure,…
- People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself…
- A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon…
- Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
- The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in…
- Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the…
- One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that they open their leaves more cordially; that the spirit of…
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